leon brown came to prominence as the wife of manchester united football or. she established to do in t.v. created in the hugely popular real housewives of cheshire before not making a further transition into an activist against economic and physical oppression of women by her support for the charity one woman at a time leon joins me night welcome thank you and happy international women's day to you again. thank you very much for joining us here really keen to talk to you about your journey from what i suppose you were termed during the time when where it was playing for manchester united as the wife of ways to now being the amazing charity activist you are working internationally and of course in the middle of finding some time for three lovely young reducing the growth i'd also working in the reality t.v. sure the real housewives of cheshire tells the bit about your journey i've always been charity were always fundraisers have a patron of another charity once upon a smile and just recently one called lily trust they're both like bereavement charities but one

the child of whom i speak was i melinda carol brown, and my father, the late reverend oliver leon brown. amy: and linda brown was refused admission, her family joined a class-action lawsuit became the historic case in which the supreme court threw out the doctrine of separate but equal, leading to the desegregation of public schools nationwide. this is linda brown recalling the day the supreme court ruled. at 12:52 p.m., the announcement came. the court's decision on ending segregation was unanimous. my mother was overwhelmed. on returning from school, i learned of the decision -- which at that time, may only to me that my sisters would not have to walk so far to school the next fall. that evening in our home was .uch rejoicing i remember seeing tears of joy in the eyes of my father as he embraced as repeating "thanks the under god." that night, the family attended a rally given by the local naacp and held at the monroe public school. amy: despite the supreme court ruling, civil rights activists have spent decades fighting for full desegregation of public schools in the united states. t

late reverend oliver leon brown. many were the evening my father would arrive home to find my mother upset because i had to take a walk like she did many years before and catch a school bus and be bust across town. i can member that walk. i could only make half of it some days because the cold would get to better for a small child. i can still remember taking that bitter walk and the terrible cold that was caused my tears to freeze on my face. i would return home then as fast as i could. a very busyss avenue in order to catch the school bus which would carry me to miles across town to the all black monroe school. these with the circumstances that so angered black parents. conjured why? why should we show our children they cannot go to the school in their neighborhood because they are black? why? why must i spend time trying to explain to my child that she cannot go to school with her neighborhood playmates who are predominantly white, native american, hispanic, and asian. in the face of this discouragement, he and 12

brown, appreciate it tonight. thanks. >> i want to get reaction from leon panetta. surprised were you, both by this invitation from kim jong un and the fact that the president seems to have accepted it? >> well, there was no question that the south koreans and north koreans made a great deal of progress with regards to the possibility of setting up negotiations, so that wasn't much of a surprise. i am obviously surprised that kim jong un issued an invitation to the president to meet with him, and probably more surprised that the president agreed to meet with him in may. >> this is really a complete reversal of what u.s. policy has been weather democratic of republican presidents. there's always been the desire to have group discussions from multiple countries with the north koreans, not necessarily allowing one on one meetings between the president of the united states and north korea. would kim jong un view this as a major victory? as a major boost to his legitimacy? >> i don't think there's any question that kim jong un has added diplomacy to his arsenal of weapon